Where were the Chinese ancestos from? Legend has it that a long long time ago,heaven and earth were a chaotic of air masses, just like an egg. A man named Pangu axed the heaven off from the earth with a huge axe.
Standig right in between the heaven and the earth, hands holding out the sky, feet stamping on the ground, he became taller and taller, hence the sky became higher and higher while the ground became lower and lower, this lasted for 18,000 years. As a result, the Heaven and the Earth were finally driven away from each oher to a vast distance of 90,000 li,and Pangu became a giant with his head holding up the heaven and his feet stamping on the ground. After his death, his eyes became the sun and the moon, his four limbs, the mountaints, blood, rivers,lakes and seas,his sinews, the fields, his artries, the roas and ways, his hairs and moustaches, the stars in the sky, his skin and body hairs,flowers, grass and woods,his teeth and bones, the shining metals,hard stones, glittering pearls and precious stones, his aweats, the dews.
What is miraculous is that many of the small insects on his body became human beings.This is the legend of Pangu creating the Heaven and the Earth. This myth has been passed on generation after generation until our time in China.
